If the oceans were ink by carla power5/12/2023 Never did he try to limit who I talked to, the questions I asked, or what I wrote.Ī decade before, we'd worked together on a team of scholars, some Muslim, some Western, all male except for me, mapping the spread of Islam through South Asia. He encouraged me to interview his family and students. He allowed me to accompany him back to India, where we visited his old madrasa and ancestral village. When I asked to shadow him through a typical day, from the gym to the mosque, he let me. In the course of the year, he endured scores of interviews and numerous visits to his Oxford home. He said yes, not just to the lessons, but to what would be unprecedented intrusions for so private a man. I wanted to immerse myself in his teachings, attending his lectures on the Quran and other Islamic issues and having occasional one-on-one lessons over the course of a year. I approached the Sheikh and proposed a project that would eventually became a book.
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